List of Palestinian suicide attacks
This article contains lists of Palestinian suicide attacks carried out by Palestinian individuals and militant groups, usually against Israeli civilian targets. The use of indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations is illegal under international law.
The first suicide attack was carried out in 1989 and the attacks stopped in 2008. The high point was in 2002 during the Second Intifada. A 2007 study of Palestinian suicide bombings during the Second Intifada found that 39.9 percent of the suicide attacks were carried out by Hamas, 26.4 percent by Fatah, 25.7 percent by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, 5.4 percent by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and 2.7 percent by other organizations.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has advocated classifying suicide bombings as crimes against humanity, a position adopted by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in 2002.
The criteria used for this list: successful deliberate attacks committed by Palestinian militant groups against either civilians or security forces, in which the perpetrators intended to die during the attack.
- Bold indicates attacks resulting in over 10 deaths.
- Bold Underscored indicates attacks resulting in over 20 deaths.
- The perpetrator are not included in the death tolls noted in this list.
1980s
1989 (1 attack)
1990s
1993 (2 bombings)
1994 (5 bombings)
1995 (4 bombings)
1996 (4 bombings)
1997 (3 bombings)
1998 (2 bombings)
1999 (2 bombings)
2000s
The Al-Aqsa intifada saw a dramatic upswing in suicide bombings, with A, 40% of the total number originated in East Jerusalem.2000 (5 bombings)
2001 (40 bombings)
2002 (47 bombings)
2003 (23 bombings)
2004 (17 bombings)
2005 (9 bombings)
2006 (3 bombings)
2007 (1 bombing)
2008 (2 bombings)
2010s
2015 (1 bombing)
2016 (1 bombing)
Total number of injuries and fatalities, by year
Note: statistics are taken from lists above.
| Year | Dead | Injured | Total | Suicide attacks |
| 1989 | 16 | n/a | 16 | 1 |
| 1993 | 2 | 39 | 41 | 2 |
| 1994 | 38 | 13 | 51 | 5 |
| 1995 | 39 | n/a | 39 | 4 |
| 1996 | 59 | n/a | 59 | 4 |
| 1997 | 24 | n/a | 24 | 3 |
| 1998 | 3 | n/a | 3 | 2 |
| 1999 | 0 | n/a | n/a | 2 |
| 2000 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 5 |
| 2001 | 85 | 476 | 561 | 40 |
| 2002 | 238 | 114 | 352 | 47 |
| 2003 | 145 | 83 | 228 | 23 |
| 2004 | 98 | 33 | 131 | 17 |
| 2005 | 33 | 60 | 93 | 9 |
| 2006 | 15 | 99 | 114 | 3 |
| 2007 | 3 | n/a | n/a | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 22 | 23 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 1 |
| Total | 805 | 964 | 1.769 | 171 |
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